Student

Semenova Ekaterina Dmitievna

Institute of Economics and Management of State Higher Educational Establishment ‘Crimean University for the Humanities’ (Yalta), Crimea

Scientific adviser: Philosophy Doctor in Economic Science

Lukyanova Yelena Yurievna

Institute of Economics and Management of State Higher Educational Establishment ‘Crimean University for the Humanities’ (Yalta), Crimea

Risk management main aspects application

for touristic business

In today's world, integration and innovation processes acquire new shape. Risks associated with any business. You must not only identify but also measure and have an idea, how and by what methods it is possible to calculate the probability of occurrence of risk situations.

The word ‘risk’ in the literal sense means making the decision, the result of which is not known beforehand. Targeted actions to limit the risk in the business are known as risk management.

Application of risk management in today's economic activity has three main positions:

̶      economic activity risk effect identification;

̶      respond ability these activities possible negative consequences;

̶      risk possible negative effects neutralization or offset measures development and implementation.

It is very important to identify touristic risks.

Touristic and recreational complex risk factors can be systematize into 4 main groups:

̶       socio-political,

̶       macro-economic,

̶       scientific-technical

̶       and environmental factors.

These factors are supplemented by internal threats that affect the sustainability of tourism businesses. These threats include all aspects of economic and commercial activities of tourism enterprises and appear in the main production processes of enterprises of touristic recreational complex, financial investment and management activities, in interactions with tourists and economic partners.

Economic units which are connected to tourism have high risks of commercial contracts default or improper performance. For example, it can be of cancellation of tours because air companies charter flights of unresolved questions with air carriers.

There are cases of inadequate service of tourists due to sudden-onset problems with the operators in the host countries. It also can be full pay refusal after tourist book tour and others.

There are classification of tourist risks:

̶      subjective risk – risk that has consequences that can not be objectively assessed;

̶      objective risk is characterized precisely measurable consequences;

̶      financial risk involves direct effects, consisting in monetary losses;

̶      non-financial risks makes non-monetary losses such as loss of health;

̶      dynamic risk is probabilistic; its effects vary depending on the situation, for example, it may be a risk of bankruptcy or financial crisis;

̶      static risk is the risk that, practically unchanged over time, in particular the risk of fire;

̶      fundamental or non-systematic, non-diversified, risk has a total impact;

̶      private or systematic, diversified, risk usually has a local character.

According to object application tourist risks can be classified into two groups: life and health risk of tourists and sightseers; economic units risks for in tourism sector. Travelers or tourists life and health risk occurs to risk sources existence and manifestations of risk factor threatening human level, human exposure to hazards.

Economic units risk in touristic areas are divided into types: financial (credit risk, price risk, the risk of changes in exchange rates, market risk, inflation risk, risk of insolvency); certain goal achieving risk in management system is aimed at achieving a certain goal minimizing losses (financial, human, material, etc.) organization.

Risk management in touristic business realizes on two levels – strategic and tactical. These levels of intra-organizational control system (strategic planning, coordination and control), and subsystems organization.

Each subsystem element consideration determine sequence of risk  management steps, which are described by the following chain: definition of risk management purposes analysis of external and internal touristic business units environment formulation of strategy and tactics of risk management choice of means and methods of risk management resource allocation and functional responsibilities analysis of risk factors for risk identification quantitative and qualitative risk assessment development and implementation of adaptation subsystem to develop risk estimates control comparison of the results of tourism risk management with the goals and benchmarks identification of negative deviations adoption of corrective actions to develop recommendations for improve the effectiveness of risk management.

The touristic risks prevention includes insurance, retention, and dissipation risk avoid. Also economic units need implementation of ISO 31000:2009, ISO 9001:2008 standarts.

Thus, risks effect to economic development of touristic industry. Organizational and economic mechanism of risk management can effectively solve many problems of economic activity tourist business units. This theses information can be useful for regional authorities on improving economical and management innovations, business leaders and economic universities students.

Literature

1. ISO 31000:2009 [Electronic Source] – Mode of Access: http://www.iso.org.

2. ISO 9001:2008 [Electronic Source] – Mode of Access: http://www.iso.org.

3. Jarrow R., Chatterjea A. An Introduction to Derivative Securities, Financial Markets, and Risk Management / Jarrow R. , Chatterjea A. – NY. : W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 2013. – 798 p.